Hoffman: 730 books
The World That We Knew
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
“Oh, what a book this is! Hoffman’s exploration of the world of good and evil, and the constant contest between them, is unflinching; and the humanity she brings to us—it is a glorious experience. The book builds and builds, as she weaves together, seamlessly, the stories of people in the most...
Back Home
Journeys through Mobile
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
After twenty years in New York City, a prize-winning writer takes a "long look back" at his hometown of Mobile, Alabama.
In Back Home: Journeys through Mobile, Roy Hoffman tells stories—through essays, feature articles, and memoir—of one of the South's oldest and most colorful port...
Alabama Afternoons
Profiles and Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
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Alabama Afternoons is a collection of portraits of many remarkable Alabamians, famous and obscure, profiled by award-winning journalist and novelist Roy Hoffman. Written as Sunday feature stories for the Mobile Press-Register with additional...
The Probable Future
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Alice Hoffman’s most magical novel to date—three generations of extraordinary women are driven to unite in crisis and discover the rewards of reconciliation and love.
Women of the Sparrow family have unusual gifts. Elinor can detect falsehood. Her daughter, Jenny, can see people’s dreams...
Intimate Wars
The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Boardroom
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
A “searingly honest debut memoir” from an activist and award-winning journalist who made a woman’s right to choose her life’s work (Kirkus Reviews).
Merle Hoffman had built a life as a classical pianist and self-made millionaire before her passion for the equality and freedom of girls and...
Love and Fury
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
**An acclaimed author reflects on his upbringing in a post–World War II blue-collar family and comes to terms with the racism, sexism, and other toxic values he inherited.
Finalist for the 2014 New England Book Award in Non-Fiction**
Richard Hoffman sometimes felt as though he had...
by Frederick Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Frederick Hoffman was a member of the British Navy during the Napoleonic Era, which witnessed one of Britains greatest naval victories at Trafalgar. Understanding the history that he was a part of, Hoffman kept journals of his duty, and they have since become popular for their inside look at the British...
by Chandler Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
A comprehensive look at the ins and outs of a professional soccer player's diet and training program. Gives detailed, easy to follow advice that cuts through the confusion and delivers the information players need to know. Includes weight lifting, cardio and mental training programs. Also included...
Lost in Translation
A Life in a New Language
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman (107,000 words)
The late poet and memoirist Czeslaw Milosz wrote, "I am enchanted. This book is graceful and profound."
Since its publication in 1989, many other readers across the world have been enchanted by Lost in Translation:...
Raised to Rule
Educating Royalty at the Court of the Spanish Habsburgs, 1601-1634
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
The children of Philip III of Spain (1578--1621) and Margarita de Austria (1584--1611) inherited great potential power: the abilities to declare war or make peace, to advocate religious doctrine, and to exert lasting influence over art, culture, and taste. The leadership provided by this generation...
Faerie Knitting
14 Tales of Love and Magic
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
From New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman and master knitter Lisa Hoffman comes Faerie Knitting, a magical melding of words and yarn where the ordinary is turned into the extraordinary and where imagination becomes creation.
The magic of storytelling and the magic of knitting—woven...
The Collected Novels Volume Two
The Foretelling, White Horses, Angel Landing, and Seventh Heaven
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Four lyrical and unforgettable tales from one of our “most interesting novelists”—including the New York Times bestseller, Seventh Heaven (Jane Smiley).
As Newsweek said of her novel Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman has a “gift for touching ordinary life as if with a wand, to reveal how extraordinary...
by Alice Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Bestselling author Alice Hoffman’s bewitching Nightbird is perfect for ages 10-13: love and friendship empower a lonely girl to embrace her uniqueness and discover her strengths.
Twig lives in Sidwell, where people whisper that fairy tales are real. After all, her town is rumored to hide...
The War Machines
Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
In The War Machines, Danny Hoffman considers how young men are made available for violent labor both on the battlefields and in the diamond mines, rubber plantations, and other unregulated industries of West Africa. Based on his ethnographic research with militia groups in Sierra Leone and Liberia...